Is unemployment rate really going down ?

last SG · 2005-11-10T17:15:16+00:00

its not tough. they always ensure there are enough money to pay themselves.

shouyi SG

All in all, I feel that the future of Singapore looks bleak. With more and more pple relocating overseas, Singapore could be facing a problem of out flow of talents. But who can blame us when there is not enough jobs locally for us.

Another problem I think Singapore could be facing is Defence. With more and more pple relocating, where to find enough pple to do reservist. Question

vito_corleone SG

mr product of government brainwashing, its time to venture out into a brave new world of 6 billion people and do something instea dof rotting in this hellhole of an island. Laughing

Peppermint SG

3Rabbits SG

Not forgetting the uproar over the intepretation of a set of employment statistic by the minister for manpower and 2 university professors!

dragg SG

see how often they change their economic forecast and how they seem to disagree on the figures.

charlize SG

If I remember correctly about that incident, the professors even got their stats and data from the MOM website. Like that also kena whacked. Laughing

av98m SG

pinch of salt not enough, a bucketful maybe.

statistics can be massaged to tell any story you want. and we really have no idea how they came up with those figures, the type of sampling used etc. the true story we can see with our own eyes.

ShutterBug SG

Unemployment rate going down = BS

pearlie27 SG

luckily they had the backing of Prof Lim Chong Yah, the father-in-law of 2nd prince, if not they could be sacked.

charlize SG

Interesting, I did not know this. Laughing

bila_prem SG

I’ve seen a lot of prc working in the IT sector. Students studying IT usually don’t get a job in the IT Sector. That’s because lots of foreigners dominating that sector. IT sector in Singapore is infested with people from India and China. Lots of foreigner also aiming to attack other expertise relating to Legal aid and also food and beverage. While Singaporean staying at home praying for job. It’s time to stand up and show what we singaporeans can do and chase foreign talents out.

robertteh SG

For many years the government has been over-emphasising on academic education under its meritocracy policy with a somewhat total disregard as to the future employment prospect of the educated population.

Other countries like Finland and Denmark etc took a different approach. They emphasised on broad-based practical education so that students will be well prepared and be fit to meet the actual skills and practical knowledge demanded in the actual work place when they graduated.

From 2001, I have posted as many as twenty feedbacks to the Feedback Unit on the danger of over-producing academic graduates and told them that their academic education system will produce a lot of educated unemployed of the future who only possess academic degree without the practical applications capability to meet actual work demands in the work places.

The new Education Minister might have made some changes but essentially the courses and teaching are still very conceptual and not applications in content.

Unless the past meritocracy policy is changed drastically it may cause neglect in developing broad-based practical education. We are now seeing many graduates unemployed because they are not practical applicator and need to receive further adaptation and on-the-job training or re-training and employers generally do not have the patience to train them as it will be costly to do so.

It is because essentially our leaders are not adept in keeping up with the time and changes that we have to experience such problems. If only they listen to feedbacks years back such a problem could have been solved earlier.

pat33 SG

I'm just curious......what you study in NUS for your Bach and Msc?

oxford mushroom SG

We can never compete with China in manufacture of ordinary goods or with Thailand with IT products. We have to go into niche areas...for example, Singapore is the world's largest exporter of off-shore oil rigs. That and the budding pharmaceutical industry have done well.

More engineers will mean lower salaries and that will be good for the nation cos' we become more competitive...bad for the individual though...Yes, government wants more R&D people at the PhD and postdocs level....Masters no longer sufficient. It also depends on which University and lab you worked in...don't forget that places like Oxbridge and Ivy League colleges are filled with Mainland Chinese scientists!

oxford mushroom SG

So our Universities and polytechnics should stop offering courses in media studies and psychology? After all, do we need so many media specialists and psychologists?

SnowFlag SG

Are we getting more competitive? Worker getting lower pay, but the cost of living keep rising.

SnowFlag SG

Not everyone bites the bullet....some are throwing bullets Mr. Green

thinker SG

Since unemployment has been haunting individual for years,

1) What can individual do to improve their situation?

2) What are the alternatives?

pat33 SG

Well said Robert and now is really the time the govt must listen......

The collective voice of the people cannot be any more inferior than the voice of the almighty govt.

We, the people, are also stakeholders remember.....

dragg SG

more and more are seeing mental doctors.

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